I finished the last of my grading this morning and put in grades! I'm done for the semester!
I wrapped a bunch of presents. I cleaned the kitchen. And I took a nap.
Kristen and I met up for rock climbing. However, there are now two routes that we couldn't really start; two weeks ago there was only one. We watch someone else do it and they just go up-up-up. I go up-pause-down. It was still fun overall though.
Once again, it was a rather busy day.
Cheryl and I went for a walk at Lowes. However, by walk, I mean we did a bunch of errands in that strip mall. Christmas is coming and the pets need food. But we walked to all the stores.
I had lunch with the CS department and then, luckily, was able to pick up Joshua's coat from piano. The building doesn't open until 2pm, but someone was going to be there until 1pm and I was able to stop by. Joshua was not very happy that he didn't have a coat today (he had to use one that was too big and too thin), but it was his fault so there was only minor complaining.
After I picked up the kids we stopped at Target to get long underwear. I also looked for mittens, but apparently that isn't a thing that adult women wear...Old Navy didn't have any either. I have other options for tomorrow but will keep my eyes out for what I want. Ideally they would be fleece-ish.
Ben and Isaac went to Magic in the evening. Joshua had some extra screen time and then we played a game. It went a bit longer than we were expecting, but we both had fun with it.
I was singing our life this morning and Isaac told me it was one of my worse songs. He wasn't wrong. I don't remember what I was singing about, but probably something like, " Josh-u-a! Don't forget your gloves." (I don't know how to type notes. Put any notes you want with it, but make sure to sing it in your head.)
That lead us to the donut song, that stayed around for a while. I tried looking for the lyrics, but couldn't find them on the blog. The tune, this one at least has a tune, is to head-shoulders-knees-and-toes.
Donuts go in mouths not toes,
mouths not toes,
mouths not toes.
Donuts go in mouths not toes,
but you smell them with your nose.
I don't remember the context of why we needed to make up such a song, but we did workshop it a bit before getting to the final version.
Christmas Ruiner babies teleported to a different container. Joke's on them though; it is my backup jail.
This morning Cheryl and I volunteered at Kids' Food Basket. I cut everything close...we go there just in time with just enough gas. (ok, I still had 14 miles left. I was going to get gas yesterday when I got groceries, but then there was a snow day and I forgot that I needed to leave early enough to do it today.) I got home just in time to start an on-line exam.
Horizon wouldn't stop eating the Christmas tree, so he went in jail. It was the place in the house with the easiest to clean floors in case he threw up again. He doesn't really get along with the Christmas tree, or any greenery for that matter, but he is addicted to it.
It was a lovely snow day. While I'm not sure that it was needed in the end, I was still glad it was called. Overnight we had a bunch of melting and it was supposed to freeze mid-day, so the roads could have been really bad during pick-up.
On top of that, it felt like a productive snow day. The kids slowly worked through some chores. I got quite a bit done, including shoveling the end of the driveway twice. I also played games with both kids, they played outside for a bit, and I took a nap. I decided not to go to karate. The roads probably would have been fine, but sometimes it's ok not to go too. We were all putting together some Lego sets by the fire, so it was a lovely family time.
The Christmas Ruiners escaped this morning. Who knows how they found TNT...Isaac thinks it was Ruiners that hadn't been put in jail. I found one in my rock climbing shoe tonight.
Friday: Isaac has been wearing this hat, named Flippy-Floppy, since kindergarten. We'll all a bit surprised that it still fits and that it hasn't been permanently lost.
